HUH??! Help badly needed.

[Chris Mayers]

Can someone please try this, and tell me what happens, cause either I've got
a weird bug in my VS2003, or I'm going mad...

C#
public void UpdateComments(string customerId, string comment)
{
string firstPart;
string secondPart;
int lengthOfString = comment.Length;
if (lengthOfString >= 200)
{
firstPart = comment.Substring(0,200);
secondPart = comment.Substring(200);
}
else
{
firstPart = comment;
secondPart = "";
}
<... Rest of Method...>
}

Couldn't be much simpler eh?
However if I run this in debug mode, and step through the code, then if my
string is longer or equal to 200 then all is well. IF however the string is
less than 200, the code jumps right over the else part of the method and
carries on with the 'Rest Of Method' code.

Anybody tell me what the **** is going on...?

TIA,
Chris

 

[Peter van der Goes]

Can someone please try this, and tell me what happens, cause either I've
got
a weird bug in my VS2003, or I'm going mad...

C#
public void UpdateComments(string customerId, string comment)
{
string firstPart;
string secondPart;
int lengthOfString = comment.Length;
if (lengthOfString >= 200)
{
firstPart = comment.Substring(0,200);
secondPart = comment.Substring(200);
}
else
{
firstPart = comment;
secondPart = "";
}
<... Rest of Method...>
}

Couldn't be much simpler eh?
However if I run this in debug mode, and step through the code, then if my
string is longer or equal to 200 then all is well. IF however the string
is
less than 200, the code jumps right over the else part of the method and
carries on with the 'Rest Of Method' code.

Anybody tell me what the **** is going on...?

TIA,
Chris

When I call your method using a short string as the second argument, the
code follows the expected path, into the else. So, you're not going mad,
IMHO. Any other indications that your VS2003 or .NET Framework 1.1 is having
problems? Can we assume the described behavior occurs with any short string
you pass?
A guess at a shotgun solution would be to uninstall, then reinstall the .NET
Framework, as I had to do that recently on a PC that suddenly lost the
ability to find the VB compiler (C++ and C# remained fully functional).

 

[Chris Dunaway]

It may just be a debugger problem. Try deleting the binaries (.exe,
..dll, and .pdb) and recompile.

I had a problem where the debugger was seemingly jumping to the wrong
lines or to blank lines and it was because the .pdb file was out of
synch with the exe.

Chris